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I guess it is time to speak briefly on Carlos Alexander. His rise to fame, and subsequent infamy is due to his unique gift. He did not always have this gift though. Carolus Alexius was born in what is now Cordoba, Spain, to Roman parents living under Moorish rule. The year was 777. His parents being aristocrats, in the basest sense, he had access to the vast library there at Cordoba, and all the secrets it harbored. You see like us, the Unseen, Carlos Alexander is drawn to magical places, special people, powerful charms, purpose-made trinkets, and the like. It is in this way that people find the chests, and other cursed items. It is in this same way that we of the Orders find each other, and draw close, so they we can stand together against the dark forces that gather to do the same.
There, from some ancient and dusty tome, he read aloud some perverse words, and pantomimed some obscure ritual, imbuing himself with an unnaturally extended lifespan. The means by which he achieved this is lost to us, likely he burned the instructions as soon as his ritual was compete. His terrible gift, along with his extended life, has allowed him to amass some of the most dangerous talismans we have ever seen. Through these talismans, he has gained power and dark influence all over the globe and beyond, and he holds sway over many. This influence also allowed him to gain enormous wealth. The companies which he has founded, and leads from the shadows, are industry leaders, and financial juggernauts. Through this interconnected network of companies, he is able to further his agenda, and spend his time concentrating his efforts where he is best served.
Due to his high stature, Carlos Alexander must be careful not to let his secret be learned by any Profane. Even many of our Orders are not sure he exists; a powerful and ancient enigma, he had evaded every attempt at defeat or capture. He has moved many times throughout the years, and lived under a hundred different names, accordingly. Eventually he settled on a forever home, where he felt he could be intermittently safe. Located in Chile, in the coastal range foothills, near the Atacama Desert, his palatial estate is impossible to miss. A monolith of stark beauty amidst the desolate landscape.
It was called Casa Culpeo, so named for a species of fox native to the area. Its construction started in the late 1780’s and employed the skill of so many skilled tradesmen; masters in stonework, carpentry, botany, fresco and mosaic, and painters. Once they all had completed their great work, Carlos Alexander slaughtered each one personally, and buried them in the remote desert. None would remain alive to tell about it, so that the sands could hold his secrets for all time. Only a few and select would be lucky enough to ever see it and to experience its wonders, and live to tell about it.
The property itself was a veritable Babylon. Lush greenery, colorful fragrant blooms, tall stately trees, and robust hedges abounded. Sculptures of the finest quality stared out over flora of the rarest and most expensive varieties. Fountains, ponds, and streams accented and divided the gardens, evoking the feelings of a European estate. The main building itself, was hewn from megalithic stone, arranged in the manner of cyclopean architecture. Inside, the halls themselves were adorned with prodigious amounts of art. Alcoves housed dignified marble busts of men and women of renown, and infamy.
Even a more-than-casual visitor to the property, might not guess at the secrets it hid. Palatial, and expansive in its layout, every room held a plethora of rich decoration, and ornate adornment. One particular room, the study, held more than just mundane books though. The third shelf on the west facing wall had a small brass handle near the back of the lowest shelf. Pulling down would cause the shelf to swing open, revealing a locked door. Through the doorway was a descending staircase, that stretched down into the very bedrock upon which the estate was built. At the bottom, another door, also locked. That door opened into a long hallway, stretching nearly a quarter mile. The whole length was hexed with dozens of special charms developed by Mr. Alexander for just this purpose. In the centuries since their employment, they had never failed. At the end of the hallway was a final door; unlocked. None but him had ever gotten as far, so there was no need for chains or locks. Behind that door lay Carlos’s own veritable cabinet of curiosities.
In his extensive collections of dark and nefarious and items, Mr. Alexander kept many artifacts of unsavory renown. His collections, which sat undisturbed in the vault below his study, might seem entirely benign, if not a touch macabre, to the average person. Rows of rich wooden shelves lined the room, and a grand wooden table was at its center. All lined with specimen jars, archeological looking objects, resplendent trinkets, human bones, and other seemingly valuable talismans and tokens.
On the shelf against the northern wall was one of Mr. Alexander’s favorite pieces. Nestled between a jar containing a preserved parasitic shrimp from another world, and a Human skull with a huge ragged hole in it, sat a single American Dollar Bill, 2000 Series minted in Philadephia. It was unremarkable save the blue smiley face stamped on it. Aside from this, it generally looked like any other gently used dollar bill in every other way.
A little girl named Dolores stamped that smiley face on it when her mother wasn’t looking, sometime in 2001. Dolores was regrettably killed in a bus accident while carrying that dollar to school for lunch the very next day. It was found in her wallet and returned to the family by the coroner with her blood-stained clothes. Her mom kept it for a month or two, but it pained her too much to keep it. So one day she burned the clothes in the fireplace. She took the dollar and stuffed it in a charity box for sick children, on the counter at the liquor store she had become such a frequent customer of.
That tin charity box, with pictures of sick kids pasted around it, was never meant for charity, however. The owner of that particular convenience store was as unscrupulous as he was greedy, and he emptied that money right into his safe every month. He didn’t care about those sick kids, not one lick. He didn’t care much about anybody. Like his employees either. So one night, John and Alex, the owner’s two longest serving minimum wage employees, hit their boss over the head with a bottle of cheap wine while he counted his money. They made away with about fifteen grand. Good haul for them. Though their freedom was short lived, they made sure to spend every penny of that money. They were in jail within forty-eight hours, having been the prime suspects from the moment someone found the old, miserly store owner dead in his office the next morning. A good portion of that money was spent at a little gem of a strip club, over on the local highway, less than twenty minutes away. Our dollar found its way into the G-string of a tall leggy blond, stage name Charlize. She had a reputation as an easy lay. She used the money the two robbers gave her to buy a nice bag of heroin from her pimp, I mean, boyfriend. He liked it when his girls were drugged out and complacent.
What none of them knew was that it unfortunately was not even heroin. It was Fentanyl; and these amateur street cooks out there couldn’t guarantee strength or purity. Dirty street shit like that is guaranteed to have a 10% overdose ratio. Charlize’s boyfriend, Danny, rolled the dollar with the smiley face up and handed it to her with a fresh line of that smack. He left her to die in that room, dollar still in her hand, alone to suffocate in her own vomit. The police were alerted to her after the hotel manager went to collect his money for the “short stay” and found a dead stripper with a face full of drugs. And our dollar went into an evidence bag. It sat on a shelf in Warwick Police Department for ten years until a bad cop, down on his luck, rummaged through old confiscated items for anything of value he could pawn. He wiped off the dollar and stuffed it directly in his wallet, among the myriad other things he had swiped.
He needed the money to pay back a big gambling debt to some shady mobsters from an illegal casino down in Atlantic City. He went to them nearly empty-handed, and they did not appreciate his offer of a payment plan. They killed him, of course. And when they were stripping his body of clothes, they found his wallet. One expired credit card, and $16 dollars in cash; a ten, a five and our one dollar bill.
These made-men returned to their high stake poker tables after the hit, and happened to sit across from Carlos Alexander, and some of his more dangerous associates, at a poker match. The made-men had no idea what that dollar was. Carlos knew though. He wagered a great deal of money that night to win that dollar from them, goading them into larger and larger bets. These mobsters pulled every denomination of bill from every pocket they had, but they wouldn’t budge; all he wanted was that dollar. The dark power of it was calling to the mobster who had taken it off of the dead man, bidding him to keep it for himself. Like all the dollar’s previous owners however, he was destined to die.
Carlos Alexander did get that dollar, even though he had to slaughter every mobster in the room, with some help from some of his baser acquaintances. Once it started, it didn’t take long to finish. Three minutes of pure carnage, and he had it. As his companions feasted on the flesh of the dead, he pulled a handkerchief from his pocket, and wiped the blood from his eyes, making sure not to dirty the dollar. He stared at it, the dark emanations of its power pulsing in his hand. Carlos Alexander smiled. He already had a place picked out for it, in his collection.

Please stay out of the Moore Area
If you are looking for Family Members or are trying to let your family know you are safe you can visit Redcross Safe & Well and list yourself or look for someone. Safe & Well
To offer manpower goto Moore.Recovers.org
A Red Cross training session for volunteers May 21st at 10am or 2pm at the Red Cross Central Oklahoma office (601 NE 6th St, Oklahoma City, OK
In times like these, we all want to help in some form or fashion. This is what makes us Okies. We pull together in time of disasters.
With that said, a note to remember. Unless you live in the effected area. Stay away. At least until the Emergency/1st responders have cleared the area. It is very hard to get EM vehicles through these areas. So....
If you want to help. The best things you can do is to donate to the Red Cross, Salvation Army, and the Southern Baptist.
Things they need.

• Blankets
• Bottle Water
• Snack Foods
• Diapers
• Etc.

Here are the groups and some locations that are accepting donations

• Red Cross is accepting monetary donations. Checks made payable to American Red Cross can be sent to: American Red Cross of Central Oklahoma, Dept. No. 96-0397, Oklahoma City, OK 73196-0397. For other ways to donate, call 228-9500 or go online to www.okc.redcross.org. To donate $10 via phone text message, text RED CROSS to 90999.
• The Oklahoma Baptist Disaster Relief Team is accepting donations. Team leaders said 100 percent of the money goes to disaster victims. Send donations to: Oklahoma Baptist Disaster Relief, 3800 N May, Oklahoma City, OK 73112. To make a donation online, go to www.bgco.org.
• Salvation Army Donation Link to donate $10 via phone text message, Text STORM to 80888
• Oklahoma Tornado Victims Relief Fund sponsored by Cumulus radio Giveforward
• The Regional Food Bank providing meals to victims. http://www.regionalfoodbank.org/donate to donate $10 via phone text message, text FOOD to 32333
• nited Way of Central Oklahoma Relief Fund http://www.unitedwayokc.org/
• Oklahoma Blood Institute Always could use blood donors. Plus the blood stays in Oklahoma.
• News9 Donation Center - A donation center has been setup at News9 7401 N. Kelly OKC. They are lookign for shovels, work gloves, boots, trash bags, dust masks, sunscreen, toiletries and above all cash donations. All goes to Red Cross
• Edmond Schools are now accepting donations
• Edmond North (215 W Danforth Rd Edmond, OK 73003) accepting bottled water
• Edmond Santa Fe (1901 W 15th St Edmond, OK 7301) accepting Canned Food
• Edmond Memorial (1000 E 15th St Edmond, OK 73013) accepting Clothing
• Tumbleweeds in Stillwater is now taking donations.
• By George Tavern 901 NW 64th St, Oklahoma City, OK 73116 is now taking donations.
• City Rescue Mission 800 West California Avenue. Oklahoma City is now taking donations.
• 19th Hole in Stillwater is now taking donations.
• The Cimarron Alliance Equality Center at 5613 N May Ave. is taking donations.
• Norman Post Main Office Accepting Red Cross Donations.
• 1st Baptist Church Nicoma Park 1931 Nichols Drive, Nicoma Park accepting relief supplies.
• Feed the Children Accepting donations from 8:30am-4:30pm at McCormick Distribution Center (29 N. McCormick). Items that will be accepted are diapers, canned goods, non-perishable food and snack items, water and sports drinks.
• Kfor Accepting Salvation Army drop offs.
• OU Equipment 180 West Brooks in Norman
• Memorial Road Church of Chirst 2221 East Memorial road in Edmond
• Net Church of OKC 2200 N Bryant, Oklahoma City (405-427-5600)
• New Direction Ministries 10109 N. Western Avenue (405-242-4692 )
• Choctaw Road Baptist Church Between 8:15 am and 4:15 pm Tuesday and Wednesday. 14971 East Reno, Choctaw (405-390-9002 )
• Mustang Brewing Company Headquarters 520 North Meridian Avenue, Oklahoma City
• Lucky Star Casino, Event Tent EL Reno, Oklahoma (405-422-6500)
• Juice Blendz 1200 West Covell Road in Edmond (405-285-0133)
• The Gate Church is accepting: Water,Sunscreen,Baby Items,Toiletries,Gloves, etc. 7700 North Council Road in Oklahoma City (405-728-7700)
• Journey Church in Norman I-35 & Tecumseh in Norman
• Culver Electric 1823 West 20th in Elk City
• Zimmer Radio Group 2702 East 32nd Street in Joplin, Missouri (417-624-1025)
• 50 Penn Place west entrance. N.W. 50th and Penn West entrance
• Calvary Temple Church 1801 S. Kelly in Edmond
• Integrity Promo 1105 S Fretz Ave. in Edmond
• Science Museum Oklahoma Donation times 9-5 Tuesday – Friday, 9-6 Saturday at 2100 NE 52nd Street in Oklahoma City
• Rose State College in Midwest City 9am to noon in the student center.
• Fusion Fitness and Yoga (405-650-8023) Located at 323 E Main St. in Norman
• Indulge Event Center (405-215-9444) Located at 3116 North Portland Avenue in Oklahoma City
• Cricket Wireless 10:00 am to 7:00pm for the remainder of the week. 4553 NW 23rd Street in Oklahoma City (405-942-0045 option #4)
• Serendipity Salvation Army drop-off 13813 North May in Oklahoma City
• STAY AT HOME MOMS Several stay at home moms collecting whatever you want to bring we will be dropping it off at KFOR: 721 South 6th Street in Chickasha (405-222-8022)
• Watonga Church of the Nazarene accepting non-perishables, blankets, toothpaste, etc. today-Wednesday at 9:00 am at East Highway 33 in Watonga
• How Sweet It Is Red Cross Drop Off 420 E Grant Street in Pauls Valley (405-238-1522)
• OSU Student Union (stillwater) has a donation drop off point.
• OSU Bus Terminal on Hall of Fame (stillwater) is accepting donations as well.
• Donation Jars in Watonga have been placed in many local business.
• Switchblade Skate Co. accepting donations between 1pm and 7pm
• Arctic Edge in Edmond is accepting donations.

Shelter and Others

• Red Cross Shelter and Reunification Site St. Andrews Church, SW 119 & S May.
• A triage center has been set up at the Warren Theater in Moore for anyone who need to be treated for their injuries.
• The University of Oklahoma is opening up spaces in Housing for the displaced families! Call us 405-325-2511! - Source
• Housing at OBU (Shawnee), contact Michael Burns at 405-308-7336 -source
• aphoticinullity has one bed available PM for details
• AgentJackBauer has a few room available PM for details
• Graceway Baptist Church, located at 1100 S.W. 104th in Oklahoma City, has opened its door to those affected by the tornado.
• Oakcrest Church of Christ at 1111 S.W. 89th Street in Moore is also open for anyone seeking help.
• Victory Church, located 4300 North MacArthur in Oklahoma City is open for those who need help.
• Journey Church in Norman I-35 and Tecumseh Road is open as a shelter for anyone needing meals and a place to stay.
• Fifth Street Missionary Baptist Church, located at 801 N.E. 5th St. Oklahoma City is also open for those affected.
• Tracy and Holly Porter told News 9 they have 60 acres with barns and pipe fencing just north of Seminole. Anyone needs somewhere to keep their cows and horses, call the Porters at (405)-777-6570 or (405)-921-0204.
• Sonya Martinez said she owns a 125,000 sq ft building at 4300 North MacArthur in Oklahoma City, and is offering services to anyone in need of shelter, food or prayer regarding this tornado.
• Resthaven Funeral Home on S.W. 104th and Western/Walker has water, bathrooms, and phones available for volunteers and victims.
• Cranes or equipment is needed for any tornado damage, the Association of Oklahoma General Contractors can provide equipment now. Contact Bobby Stem, AOGC, at (405)-520-1874.
• Oklahoma insurance Comissioner Doak just said that Oklahoma Baptist University has opened up 160 dorm rooms FREE OF CHARGE for displaced tornado survivors. You're to call the Presidents office or just show up and ask for the presidents office. Here are two numbers. 405-275-2850 or 405-878-2402
• Harvest Norman Campus - 2800 W. Indian Hills Rd. has a shelter setup. Contact Pastor Scotty Haynes at 405-760-7732 or email [email protected]
• LifeChurch.tv South OKC. 7800 S. Walker. I-240 and Walker next to Academy.
• aXvXiA has room available PM for Details.
• jaegfd has space available PM for details.
• Moore Community Center 201 S Howard Moore
• Newcastle Storm Shelter 851 N Carr Newcastle, OK
• Trinity Church of the Nazarene is open as an emergency shelter. It is located at 7301 S. Walker, just on the north side of I-240
• City Rescue Mission has immediate shelter available for anyone who needs it! 405.232.2709 [email protected]
• oklahomaoil has two beedrooms for families near Mustang email at [email protected]
  
• Blood Drives around the Metro
  
• Riverwind Casino: Wed, 10 a.m.
  
• 6 p.m.Lucky Star Casino, Concho: Thurs., 1 - 6 p.m.
  
• Sugar Creek Casino: Thurs., 1 - 6 p.m.
  
• SaltCreek Casino: Thurs., 1 - 6 p.m.
  
• FireLake Bowling Center: Fri., 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
  
• Grand Casino: Fri., 1 - 6 p.m.
  
• Lucky Star Casino, Clinton: Fri., 1 – 6 p.m.
  
• Remington Park Racetrack & Casino: Fri.,, noon – 5 p.m.
  
• Kickapoo Casino: Sat., 9 a.m. – 2 p.m
  
• Newcastle Casino: Sat., noon – 5 p.m.
  

To offer manpower please use moore.recovers.org * OU Student Goverment is getting a group for together for a work 'task' force to help
Pets Looking for missing pets or have found pets you can post in /missingpetsinmoore or visit Pet Owners Resource Center

• Volunteers with the Central Oklahoma Humane Society are assisting with the transportation of injured animals. They are taking in as many displaced animals as they can, but their facilities are filling up fast. They need financial support to assist their efforts. You can make a donation online and designate it to their Disaster Relief Fund. Call their office at (405)-607-8991 to donate over the phone.
  
• Benchmark Animal Hospital says any animals that have been affected by the tornado and need shelter or medical attention can call their hospital or drop off the animal for their staff to evaluate and treat them. They have a huge facility and can accommodate a significant amount of animals. They can be reached at (405)-547-8381.
  
• A triage area for lost and injured pets have been set up at the Moore Home Depot.
  
• The Animal Resource Center is taking displaced pets (phone# (405)604-2892).
  

For any body needing a flight in to OKC to help with relief efforts, or needing to leave the OKC to be with family the members of /INeedAFlight are here to help.They use their own money/miles to help get people where they need to be in times like these.
I will be updating with more groups as the information comes out.
Update 4:55pm If you any of you would like to offer help in some form or fashion (opening up your home, etc.) PM the details and best way to contact and I will add to thread!
Update 6:20 Doesn't seem to be any more information coming in at this time. Please continue to add if you hear of something not listed and I will update the main post at a later time. I am going to step away from the computer and get some food.
Update 7:20pm CDT Reports are coming in that it is safe to drink the water in SE OKC again
Update 7:24pm CDT Please use the hashtag #OKHAVES and #OKNEEDS on twitter to help self-define the changing needs and available of aid. - Thanks AlTornadoResp
Update 7:30pm CDT There is a Live update Thread - thanks to herduckyness
Update 8:00pm CDT Moore Crisis Map
Update 8:47pm CDT Picture and Document Facebook Recovery Site
Update 9:00pm CDT I am stepping away from the computer, most likely for the evening. Keep adding stuff in the comments and Stay Safe.
Update May 21st 8:20am CDT I am back and have updated the list with all the new information.
Update May 21st 1:00pm CDT I will most likley not be updating this thread anymore. There is so many groups out there taking donations and so many already listed that I think we are covered. Thank you to all who have helped me by sending me information. We pulled in information from variety of sources and I could not have done it all with out you. As we start to enter into the cleanup/rebuilding phase, I may post a new thread on how you can help. Again Thank You all!